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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Harty: .... I will try to clarify it within the four parameters the legislation proposes. Under the first parameter it is proposed that termination can occur if there is a risk to the life or health of the mother. In that instance, that baby is a much-wanted baby. Circumstances have overcome that pregnancy such that the life or health of that woman is at risk. That woman will have had several...

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Michael Harty: I welcome the Government’s decision to carry out a full forensic excavation and DNA testing of children’s remains at the site of the Tuam mother and baby home. I know the Minister recognises it will be a huge logistic and scientific undertaking. It is an extremely important decision and is the correct response by the Minister. This episode in our past is a gigantic blot on...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister for taking the debate. We are all aware of excessive alcohol intake and its effect on society and people, on their physical and mental health, as well as the social effects that alcohol has. We are all aware of people who developed cirrhosis of the liver, and we think that is the only physical illness that alcohol will cause in people. People are not aware, however,...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: ...their opportunity to vote on this issue. It is one of the most important social issues that will come before this Dáil. It is an issue which involves morals, ethics, society, religion, biology and deeply personal issues. No one answer will satisfy all those issues or satisfy everyone. This issue of termination of pregnancy has the capacity to be deeply divisive. Termination of...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: However, it is up to each individual to make an ethical and moral judgment as to the rights and wrongs of termination of pregnancy in the circumstances in which they find themselves. Thus, should the eighth amendment be repealed, the nature of the legislation to provide for termination of pregnancy will be centre stage. The recent Supreme Court judgment has clearly decided that the only...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Harty: I support the holding of a referendum on repealing the eighth amendment of the Constitution to allow Irish people to have their say on this very important and difficult issue. The recommendations of the Oireachtas all-party committee should be the basis of any proposed legislation to be put in place should the people decide to repeal the eighth amendment. Such legislation will be the legal...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Michael Harty: I will speak in favour of the motion. The Rural Independent Group is also fully in favour of the motion. I thank Deputy Catherine Martin for tabling it. Care of family and children is enshrined in our Constitution and the birth of a baby is the most significant event in a family's life journey. The proper care and nurturing of a baby by bonding between mother and baby is critical to the...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: ...run for the end of the debate. The Maureen Harding Clark report on surgical symphysiotomy remains a very unsatisfactory report for many women. It covered a period of 50 years from 1940 to 1990 and was set up on the assumptions that symphysiotomy led to lifelong disability and was impelled by Catholic teaching on contraception and that Irish doctors were alone in the English-speaking...